Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Budhakauśika

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9972100193503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/960909737
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7210019

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used primarily for private recitation and ritual directed towards the Hindu deity Rāma. Reciting the text is meant to produce a protective barrier over the devotee that will protect him or her from harm, thus functioning as a kind of prayer amulet or talisman.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 8r).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃ[vat] 1962 (1905) (f. 8r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Amulets--India
• Amulets (Hinduism)
• Rāma (Hindu deity)

Genres

• Prayers (documents)
• Hymns (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--20th century
• Manuscripts--India--20th century

Licenses

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